Not for nuthin' but everyone has been assuming that the Stream will have the same remote streaming functionality as the Romio once remote streaming is deployed.

Has this been confirmed?

The hardware in the Stream is the same as what's in the Roamio. Also a couple of the Roamio reviews mentioned that they tested outside the house streaming and that it wasn't working on the Roamio so they had to use a standalone Stream instead. Plus the Basic Roamio does not have a built in Stream so for that to support outside the home streaming they need the Standalone option to do it as well. So while I don't think it has been officially confirmed, the odds are heavily stacked in favor of it happening.

Quote:

Originally Posted by yukit

Yep, I would definitely buy one or two Streams when this feature becomes available.

I wonder if Tivo will charge for the client software like Slingbox.

The Stream supports up to 4 simultaneous streams, so you don't need 2. In fact having 2 doesn't really work very well as you have to go through the setup process in the app to switch between them.

The TiVo app is free. It's highly unlikely they will start charging for it when out of the home streaming becomes available.

I still doubt it. Without the app the Stream is useless. Slingbox has a free method of using the device via a browser or free PC app, with TiVo the only way to use the device at all is via the iOS app. If they need more money they'd be better off raising the price of the Stream then charging for the app.

According to the few mentions we saw about OOH streaming in the Roamio reviews they are going to have some sort of restrictions. However it wasn't clear if it was based on the CCI byte so something else.

If the CCI byte for "copy once" prevents out-of-home streaming, those of us on providers like Cablevision or TWC that protect just about everything will be furious.

I read an early review that discussed some content that was restricted from out of the home streaming. It didn't specifically indicate that the restriction was coming from the CCI byte, and of course we haven't heard anything from TiVo on whether this limitation will follow into production.

We have discussed this in the past and I think it would be a stretch for TiVo to interpret the CCI byte in this way - but this is a lot of conjecture at this point.